• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Find the last winning lottery numbers that somebody did not pick, very large lottery like billion dollar in size. Go back in time go tothe appropriate states so I don’t have to reveal my identity and win.

    I won’t tell anybody that I want. I just tell my friends and family. Hey, I made money on the stock market here some extra cash for you.

    Then I jump into the future and find the cures for Alzheimer’s dementia, congestive heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, how to give a person 20/20 vision with just a pill or something, same way to fix hearing. Jump a couple hundred years beyond that to make sure there wasn’t some sort of long-term effect.

    Then I bring those cures back here along with exactly how to make them. I patent them and license them. The charge I would license the cure is out to other companies so they can make them. The cost for them to make the cure what I would charge them. Would be basically my cost. I would just charge my attorney fees and any other taxes I might get charged. And then I would charge five dollars a year. I don’t mean five dollars a year per vile, I mean five dollars a year. Just let the companies make it and distribute it. If some company got greedy and decided to charge a super high amount, I’d build my own company to distribute it.

    Maybe go far enough to find a solution for the micro plastics that we created. And bring that back and fix the environment.

    After I did all that, now it’s time to have some fun.

    Getting enough money so I could buy the entire Stargate franchise from Amazon. Hire on the original co-creators and the original writers and make a of new episodes. And tell them 25 episodes per season five seasons guaranteed. If no broadcaster wants to broadcast if no streaming service wants to pick it up, I’ll just go straight to DVD/Blu-ray/4K. Yeah, I know there’s a bunch of people that don’t want that many episodes per season, I don’t care I’d make that many episodes per .😁

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    14 days ago

    I’d go back and kick my own ass for many reasons but mostly for not asking out that girl that one time I was like 65% sure she was into me. Still can’t let that go. What a little punk ass b.

  • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works
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    Buy and sell an actually profitable nft. It’ll be like winning the lottery without the drawbacks.

    I’d be rich and no one would be jealous of me. In fact most of them will assume I’m lying about my money and not try to rob me. And who would rob an android user with no car or brand names? A rich loser seems to be the best way to live.

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    15 days ago

    So many dead billionaires and political figures… just like… a ludicrous amount.

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    I’d go 50 and 100 years into the future and see when and how time travel has been abused and then based on that I’d decide if I should go back and destroy all of the creator’s hard work before somebody else got a hold of it.

    I’d also probably go back and see my grandma for a while before the dementia got bad. Bring the family to meet her.

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    15 days ago

    Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

    Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

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    Come on, can’t ask this kind of question without giving us the rules.

    Paradox free? Does the future change? Do I go as my current self or is age adjusted? Do I keep my current knowledge and memories and skills? Do I get to go back? Do I get multiple tries to get the optimal outcome?

    So many variables with these kinds of hypotheticals, I can’t give you any meaningful answer without general outlines of the rules. Can’t play the game if I don’t know the rules.

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      15 days ago

      Taking this way too seriously. Just take the other responses as examples.

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        I mean, that’s what makes it fun? Do you play games without rules too? In my mind, it’s not worth much thought if there’s no rules to it. Otherwise you could just say “I will go into the future where they’ve invented how to become a god and then come back with my godlike powers and do whatever I want.”

        it’s the wishing-for-more-wishes kind of boring thing to do. Boundaries and restrictions breed creativity. That’s what’s fun for me.

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    I’d go back to the 90s and go to a live performance of Daft Punk. Their concerts were absolutely crazy, live remixes, etc. when I was alive during that time I wasn’t old enough to even know who they were so it’s not like I ‘missed out’. If we’re going the selfish self-serving route I’d def buy stock in yahoo / google. Then would travel to 5 years ago and reinvest that money into renewables and influence into politics to hopefully steer us away from the shit we are dealing with now. Oooo Id also go back and look up all the oil baron assassins and counter assassinate them so electric would actually take hold in the 80s like it was supposed to.